I really don't think I'd be in #IT and #SoftwareDevelopment if it weren't for the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #CPB #PBS, especially #StewartCheifet's #ComputerChronicles & #NetCafe, #RobertXCringely's #TriumphOfTheNerds and #NerdsTwoPointOhOne #ABriefHistoryOfTheInternet.
Our first #TV was a tiny B&W Sony that my grandfather had bought for my parents (later used with my #VIC20.) Our first color TV had broken audio, so set ontop of a B&W TV with no picture but working sound. No joke.
Why does the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting dissolution feel like such a hard blow? Less than a month after #StewartCheifet's passing, whose #ComputerChronicles & #NetCafe were partially funded by the #CPB and aired on #PBS, no less!
Growing up, I had books, radio, and over-the-air TV. I experienced computers through family, friends, school, and _especially_ #TV. My first computers were hand-me-downs (a #Commodore #VIC20, then an #IBM #PS2). I didn't get #Internet until much later.
Morgan Aldridge